Have a story sitting on your hard drive that feels like it wants to be a larger project? Want to continue exploring your characters and their world? This course aims to teach novel writing as a practice of expansion. We'll read Zadie Smith, Meta Wagner, Lauren Wilkinson and Jonathan Safran Foer to guide our discussions of novel planning, world-building, structure, and how to grow a story without losing its urgency. Through workshop of one another's opening chapters, you'll get firsthand practice of skills necessary to turn short fiction into a novel.
When: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 6PM - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Where: Culture Works 
1315 Walnut Street 
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
How Much: $400, but scholarships are available! 
Apply by 23 December!

29 May 2016
7:00 pm

Join the Reed Street Book Club for a potluck and a discussion of Girl at War with the author. 
714 Reed Street
South Philly Fitness Works

The Aftermath
1:00 pm 
September 16, 2018 
Borough Hall Courtroom, 209 Joralemon St
Psychological, unseen injuries are often the most difficult to identify and treat. As medicine struggles to diagnose and treat post-traumatic stress disorder, literature is recognizing its reality and import. Novelists Shahriar Mandanipour (Moon Brow), Katia D. Ulysse (Mouths Don’t Speak), Dan Sheehan (Restless Souls) join Sara Nović (Girl at War) to explore the power of PTSD, whether it’s acquired on the battlefield or on the home front.
https://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/events/the-aftermath/

CUNY Center for the Humanities, Proshansky Auditorium

Join poets, scholars and cultural writers for a reading and performance of signed poetry, featuring a variety of genres and styles, followed by a discussion on linguistics, translation, publishing and poetics. Poet, performer and director of ASL SLAM Douglas Ridloff, founders of The Flying Words project Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner, and poet and editor John Lee Clark will share their original works. This will be  followed by an exercise in translation by author and artist Adrean Clark and a moderated discussion by author and critical essayist Sara Nović. The event will be introduced by Rachel Mazique, NTID Department of Liberal Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology. 


https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/publishing-american-sign-language-poetry

Join me and members of the Veterans Writing workshop for a reading at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House:

Saturday, 5 May 2018
58 West 10th Street
2:00 PM

​http://as.nyu.edu/cwp/reading-series/spring-2018/--nyu-veterans-writing-workshop-reading.html

LUNCH WITH SARA NOVIĆ 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

Free, but rsvp: wh@writing.upenn.edu or 215-573-9748
co-sponsored by: The Creative Writing Program at UPenn
hosted by: Beth Kephart

Food and ASL interpretation will be provided.

http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0318.php

Due to a death in the family, I've unfortunately had to cancel my event at this year's Lit Cologne. I'm sorry for any inconvenience, and I do hope to connect with German readers in the near future. 

​https://blogs.stockton.edu/literature/about-2/visiting-writers-series-2/